Couture Closet

Get the L.A. luxe look

by Melinda Nelson |
September 1, 2011

Room: A couture closetWhere: Lowry HillDesigner: Tom Rauscher

Like all addictions, it starts innocently enough. After all, what's the harm in a single television show? But when one episode becomes two, then three, and you start skipping Tuesday night book club in order to stay home and watch Million Dollar Decorators on Bravo, you know you're hooked.

Luckily for your family and friends, the show is a relatively harmless obsession, with potentially beautiful consequences. Inspired, amused, and appalled by the talented-but-petulant Mary McDonald and her equally snarky fellow decorators, you turn a discerning designer's eye on yoru own living environment and realize that you, too, can live in luxurious L.A. style.

And what better place to start than with your own closet? To begin, take an underutilized room and a page from local designer Tom Rauscher, who recently created a fabulously practical space for one very glamorous Twin Cities client in Lowry Hill.

Outfitted with haute custom cabinetry by Charlie Lleuthner of Artistic Visions Cabinetry, this couture closet/dressing room offers plenty of room for clothes, shoes, jewelry, luggage, a chic little chien, and other accoutrements for an impossibly stylish, impeccably organized life.